I have been experimenting with the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino for the pass few days, and I have to say I am quite excited by this application. Grasshopper creates a graphical interface to Rhino scripting. After just a few hours of use, I found that scripts I had previously spent a few days […]
Ambient Experience by Philips focuses on the values and needs of both patients and medical staff, addressing the total experience of the environment. They integrate architecture and technology (e.g. lighting, sound, vision, RFID) to create spaces that the patient can personalize, wrapping the patient in a relaxing ambience. This puts patients at ease and so […]
AdFreak points to the best example of automated-translation-gone-wrong ever seen. As you can see in the image above, this Chinese restaurant appears to have used an online translation service (e.g. Babel Fish or Google Translate) to provide its customers with an English translation of its name. A noble intention. It’s just a shame that the […]
Researchers at the Human Media Laboratory, Queen’s University in Canada are developing prototypes of new “non-planar” devices, which are virtually computers that have a flexible shape. Computers are nifty, but too bulky to be carried around. Even a laptop is too big to put in your pocket, but imagine if your computer looked and […]
I admire the great photographic series by Alexey Titarenko using long exposure shots to describe the masses moving through St. Petersburg Russia. The crowd appears to become a machine in motion. This is a visual explanation of some of the world that produces pure residual data.
DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s next large scale multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller’s field […]
I just came across the Citysense application for Blackberry which allows participating users to monitor active areas of the city (only San Francisco at this time) through real time network monitoring. Citysense is powered by Sense Networks application over the GSM networks. There also appears to allow personalization of the system to attribute […]
There was a very interesting article in the Sunday New York times concerning data collecting billboards currently placed around the city. A company named TruMedia (CEOed by George Murphy previously a marketing Exec at Daimler-Chrysler) use facial recognition techniques to tune the advertisements for the most effective means to grab the attention of their demographic groups.
I first read the headmap manifesto back in 2002, and I have picked it up a few times since. I think its an important part of dwelling in digital and would like to offer it here, its an incredible read on location based technologies. The Headmap is a look at both the social and […]
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